Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Separating families?

One of the chief objections to enforcing immigration law is that, by sending home the parents of children with U.S. citizenship, we're breaking up families. What's not mentioned, however, is that these children also have Mexican citizenship. See Article 30, section 2 of the Mexican Constitution. Their parents are fully entitled to take them home when they are deported.

So who is heartless? That would be the parents, in my opinion.

2 comments:

Mercy Now said...

I've never read the fine details of our laws as far as citizenship goes but if someone's here illegally, giving birth here automatically grants US citizenships?

Bike Bubba said...

Yes--see the 14th Amendment. All persons born or naturalized here are citizens.